by Democrat reporter
First Glasgow have put single bus fares up to a whopping ยฃ3.25, leaving us with some of the most expensive buses in the UK .
How can The Scottish Governmentย allow this blatantly unfair situation to persist? ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. They must supportย SPTโs plans to take our regionโs bus network back into public control by allocating at least ยฃ6 million in this weekโs Scottish Budget [tomorrow,Tuesday]. West Dunbartonshire Against Austerity. ๐ฃ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ!
One disgruntled passenger, Paul Shaw, said: “It’s clear that the private operators are hiking prices to capitalise on our ridiculous deregulated system before franchising comes in. It’s time for our elected politicians to speed up bus franchising in Strathclyde to stop this price-gouging in its tracks.”